Thursday, 1 August 2013

Booking Through Thursday: It's Personal


Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme, hosted by btt2, about (mostly) books and reading.


Question for the week:
Do you have a preference between “person” in the books you read? Do you prefer third-person to first-person? Or don’t you care? And … why??


I'm indecisive about this one. Always have been, if you would've asked me years ago, I would have said I preferred first person, and generally I used to steer away from third person. Now, I kind of prefer third person, since you do get more of a perspective on everything than you would with first person. I guess you get to understand a character better that way, at least, I do. Saying that, I do connect more with characters in first person since they have more of a "voice"...see? Indecisive.

Unlike before, I read both.

Now, switching from first and third and multiple perspectives in one book, is a whole different issue.





Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Waiting On Wednesday (#4)

"Waiting on" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases.
 
What a day! Anyway, this weeks WoW is...
 
Untold by  Expected publication: August 29th 2013 by Simon & Schuster UK

 


                                                              

Free from bonds, but not each other

It’s time to choose sides… On the surface, Sorry-in-the-Vale is a sleepy English town. But Kami Glass knows the truth. Sorry-in-the-Vale is full of magic. In the old days, the Lynburn family ruled with fear, terrifying the people into submission in order to kill for blood and power. Now the Lynburns are back, and Rob Lynburn is gathering sorcerers so that the town can return to the old ways.

But Rob and his followers aren’t the only sorcerers in town. A decision must be made: pay the blood sacrifice, or fight. For Kami, this means more than just choosing between good and evil. With her link to Jared Lynburn severed, she’s now free to love anyone she chooses. But who should that be?


 
I loved Unspoken, can't wait for this one. For real.
 
What's on yours this week?

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

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Teaser Tuesday (3)




Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
 
 
 
Title: The Woken Gods
Author:
Release date: September 3rd 2013
Publisher: (Strange Chemistry) Angry Robot
Page: 130
 
 
Five years ago, the gods of ancient mythology awoke around the world.
This morning, Kyra Locke is late for school.
Seventeen-year-old Kyra lives in a transformed Washington, D.C., home to the embassies of divine pantheons and the mysterious Society of the Sun. But when rebellious Kyra encounters two trickster gods on her way back from school, one offering a threat and the other a warning, it turns out her life isn’t what it seems. She escapes with the aid of Osborne “Oz” Spencer, an intriguing Society field operative, only to discover that her scholar father has disappeared with a dangerous relic. The Society needs it, and they don’t care that she knows nothing about her father’s secrets.
Now Kyra must depend on her wits and the suspect help of scary gods, her estranged oracle mother, and, of course, Oz–whose first allegiance is to the Society. She has no choice if she’s going to recover the missing relic and save her father. And if she doesn’t? Well, that may just mean the end of the world as she knows it.
 
Teaser
 
 
“Let’s do it,” Justin says. “I can revisit the text on the Apkallu you have.”
“Seven sages put something in your head?” Oz asks, and begins to walk. To me, he explains, “That’s another name for them.”
“I’ll never catch up to all the stuff you guys know.” Good thing I won’t have to.
 
Leave me links to yours!

Monday, 29 July 2013

Review: Dark Spell

Dark Spell
Author: Gill Arbuthnott
Release date: August 1st 2013 (first published July 1st 2013) 
Source :  Received a digital copy via Netgalley. (In exchange for an honest review. Thank you!)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fifteen-year-year-old Callie Hall has just found out that she is a witch...and things keep going wrong. Sometimes her mind seems to make things happen, things she cannot control. She can set fire to things without a match, and when she's angry people can get hurt. Her friend Josh understands that she's a bit strange, but it is only on a dark and dangerous visit to the tunnels beneath the ruins of St Andrews' castle that he realises just how strange she really is. Something comes back with Callie--in Callie--something she cannot escape. Can Callie control her power long enough to send back the darkness before it takes over her life? Will Josh ever understand her secret?
 
 
 
 
 
 
Review
 
This will be a short review, as I neither enjoyed or hated Dark Spell, it was just...there.
Fifteen year old Callie thinks her life is boring. She isn't popular, and she really doesn't have any friends, (well, not in her town) her only solace being Josh, whose from Edinburgh and keeps in contact via facebook. Me, being in Wales , knows this method very well as I have a really good friend in Canada.

Sunday, 28 July 2013

Stacking The Shelves #3 & Recap

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Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

Well, it's been a crappy week for me. I'm not liking my doctors at the moment, but does anyone?
I've also recently started reviewing with ReadGig

Right, not many this week. Silver lining? I can play catch up!

For Review
(Click on covers for goodreads!)
 
 

                          First book from Readgig!                  Edelweiss. Thanks Egmont!

                                                                        

Bought
(Click on covers for goodreads!)

                                                                              


 
 Yes, I loved All Our Yesterdays so much I had to buy it. Hallelujah to the Book Depository for early releases. All have such pretty covers, too!
 
What's did you get this week? Leave your links and I'll have a look!
 
 
A recap of posts this week
I really sense a All Our Yesterday theme this week!
 
This week I have read: